Mental Health - February 2007

2007-02-06 23:00:29 · 13 answers · asked by 2 good 2 miss 6

College started in January. I've been once. I'm addicted to pain killers to help me go to sleep. And I blow through money like (sorry to use the old expression) like it blows on trees. My parents support me. I have an apartment and a new car and everything I want. I just got off hard core drugs for good, I dont drink. But I need motivation for going to college. Someone help me change, someone motivate me, please..... I'm a great kid. I just took the wrong path in highschool. If I applied myself, i'd do wonders..

2007-02-06 21:32:44 · 10 answers · asked by You only live once... so live 2

VictimX_26: Hi
Cheesedog: hello
Cheesedog: who is this?
VictimX_26: just a someone?
Cheesedog: A someone I know?
VictimX_26: nope
Cheesedog: Then why the hell are you bothering me?
VictimX_26: well sorrrrrry
VictimX_26: I just wanted to chat with you
Cheesedog: why?
VictimX_26: nevermind your an asshole
Cheesedog: Hey wait a minute
VictimX_26: yes?
Cheesedog: look I'm sorry. I'm just a little paranoid
VictimX_26: paranoid?
Cheesedog: yes
VictimX_26: of what?
VictimX_26: me?
Cheesedog: No. I'm in hiding.
VictimX_26: LOL
Cheesedog: Don't ******* laugh at me!
Cheesedog: This **** is serious!
VictimX_26: What are you hiding from?
Cheesedog: The cops.
VictimX_26: gimme a ******* break
Cheesedog: I'm serious.
VictimX_26: I don't get it
Cheesedog: The cops are after me.
VictimX_26: For what?
Cheesedog: I'm wanted in three states
VictimX_26: For???
Cheesedog: It's kindof embarrasing.
Cheesedog: I had sex with a turkey.
Cheesedog: Hello?
VictimX_26: You are ******* sick.
Cheesedog: Send me your picture.
VictimX_26: why?
Cheesedog: so I know you aren't one of them.
VictimX_26: One of what?
Cheesedog: The cops.
VictimX_26: I'm not a cop i told you
Cheesedog: Then send me your picture.
VictimX_26: hold on
Cheesedog: Hurry up.
Cheesedog: Are you there?
Cheesedog: **** you, cop!

2007-02-06 21:22:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

have never gone, am at a 'normal' weight now and that scares me, what do they usually talk about and how can i make others feel more comfortable w a new membe? is that an issue?

2007-02-06 20:58:04 · 2 answers · asked by Starrk 1

2007-02-06 20:49:11 · 14 answers · asked by kerry n 2

I have been married a long time. About 10 years ago my husbands drinking increased from social to blitzed on Fri & Sat. Now daily.
The last couple of years, with lots of pressure and disappointments in his life, his drinking has become as escape. A dangerous escape. He is not violent, but he is missing his life. I have to live the isolated life with him. I am trying to keep it together. I love him, but it is hard to be happy with what he has done with himself and our lives, with the alcohol.
I am going to try AlAnon, The web site was no real consolation to me, or even a direction that I see myself in. But, I am willing to try.
I don't want to just complain, I want some techniques to cope and maintain. I have no real power over him, but I can control how it effects me. A little help from people that have found what works for them would help.
Please no sarcasm, It toke a lot to just write this, so if you don't have empathy don't answer, go to another question.
Thanks

2007-02-06 20:39:43 · 9 answers · asked by Pat B 3

I am destroying my life with negative thoughts - please help!

2007-02-06 20:17:53 · 16 answers · asked by See it as 3

I recently quit smoking pot. I have smoked it for 15 years, the last 10 can be considered extremely heavy use. Since I stopped, I have absolutely no appitite, sometimes going more than a 24 hours without eating. I'm not sure that I'm able to recognize what it feels like to be truly hungry anymore. The thought of eating anything is borderline nausiating. But that's just my fist problem, next is my newly aquired insomnia. I can barely sleep. For example, It's 2:41 am right now, I should be in bed. My lack nutrition and sleep in starting to affect my job. Funny, I never thought stopping a drug habit would lead to a decline in my work performance. I don't want to take any form of sleep aids either, for two reasons, 1: another habit will ensue; 2: I know this might sound strange from a habitual marijauna smoker, but i don't like taking drugs or pills or anything like that. never have, never will. (pot doesn't count (to me). So if you managed to actually read all of this, I need your help.

2007-02-06 19:51:46 · 6 answers · asked by jpgray73 2

I started using started using drugs about three months ago and my life is slowly but surely falling apart! I have been buying every day! My husband knows but he has no idea I am still using. I started with coke and now using meth. I have NO family close. My life has no value since the death of a loved one. I had never really bought anything till know. I have spent all of our savings, gotten loans, and borrowed from our parents. My husband is wonderful and I have been so wrong to him!! He does NOT deserve this!! I can NOT stop. Also my mother should not have to go through this! Why does meth make every thing so messed up?? I feel worthless! I know I need rehab and have told my mom and husband but they are the type that if u ignore it, it will disappear. Please give me advice. What do I tell them?? Please dont say "just go to rehab". I already know that.

2007-02-06 19:25:03 · 17 answers · asked by Lizzy 1

It was just so sudden...I was in school when suddenly my dad called me and told me that she was in critical condition. When I got there, she was dead. I am just feeling so depressed now and stressed and exams are just around the corner. Who would be in a mood to study when your mom just died? I am 13 btw. The past few days she even sounded so happy and said on her wedding anniversary she is going to throw a big party and eat wadeva she wants and I was looking forward to that too. My normally stingy dad agreed and my mum said she had always wanted to try it once and yet this sort of thing happens...

2007-02-06 19:10:56 · 12 answers · asked by ccfruitpunch93 2

I dont remeber much from my childhood but i dont know why I can remember something sexual that happened with my father and im not sure if this happened or not. I think that when I was a kid I didnt even realize what I was doing. im scared to tell my mother b/c I dont know how she will act. is it possible that I can find a way to remeber all of this so that I can know what really happened?

2007-02-06 19:02:58 · 8 answers · asked by kyah 2

2007-02-06 19:01:39 · 10 answers · asked by AppleCard! 2

i am 21 years old and feel depressed virtually all the time. i really just hate myself, stemming mainly from (i think at least) the fact that i have never had a girlfriend, and that i have never even had a girl really interested in me. i feel extremely ugly, both inside and out, and just feel like i will never be able to attract a girl. i have smoked weed for the last couple of years (i began just after my father passed away) nearly every day to cope, and it has helped quite a bit. but i am sick of the side effects, and also being seen as a 'stoner'. i quit during this period for over a month, but felt worse by the end. i am too ashamed to seek out expensive psychologists, am very hesitant and wary of anti-depressant drugs, and just dont really want to live anymore. my confidence and self esteem seem to be forever falling, but i feel like my only way out is not an option due to my family. after 21 years with no interest from girls, you do start thinking what is wrong with yourself

2007-02-06 18:56:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that I am clinicly depressed. I can't seem to sleep at night (hence why I'm on here at 1 AM), during the day all I want to do is sleep, I was once a very out going person -you couldn't keep me home- now the idea of even going to the store for sandwich meat for my 9yr old daughter's lunch just about shuts me down. I have little to no energy, I'm newly a stay-at-home mom w/ two kids ages 3 1/2 yrs and 18 months. It's all I can do just to get up and take care of them and sometimes that's not even as good as it should be. They want their mommy, and all mommy wants to do is sleep (I'm exhausted, I feel drugged throughout the day) or be left alone. I KNOW I need help, but since I quit my job I have no insurance & I can't get on my husbands (not legaly married). We barely make ends meet now with his paycheck. I'm at the end of my rope & I'm starting to feel myself loose control. I don't want to hurt anyone & I want to be there for my family, I just don't think I can.

2007-02-06 18:55:27 · 7 answers · asked by akmedic 1

2007-02-06 18:49:46 · 4 answers · asked by bystander1212 3

I am 16 currently, nearing 17, and I have just started seeing my counsellor once again (used to see him like 2 years ago, my mother wanted me to go back when I told her I had polished off a bottle of cooking wine (btw, we are mormon so we don't get like any wine here) and after I answered yes when she asked if I had cut myself again). Anyways, my real question is what sort of things fall under risk to yourself or others? Like, obviously suicide or homicide or attacking someone and stuff, but what else for risk for yourself? Like, if I told him I wanted to cut would he be able to tell my parents? And what if I told him I had started using household products to get high? Could he tell that? I know I shouldn't be doing those things, that's why I'm in counselling, but I just need to know if I can tell him about these sort of things without him telling others? And can he force me to not cut or get high? Thanks for any help =)

2007-02-06 18:29:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just woke up about five minutes ago from a nightmare. I dreamt I was driving up a steep hill that was just a regular road. It was dark out, and all of the sudden I reached the top of the hill and heard a train whistle. I saw the front of the train and the light flashing in my eyes, and I realized that the road strangely turned into a railroad track and I was heading full speed into the train. The car accelerated into the air, and all I could hear was the blast of the train whistle. In my dream I was perfectly calm. I thought "okay this is it, the moment that I die." And I woke up just before I crashed. My heart was racing and I was breathing very hard and all I can use to describe how I felt was pure terror. I was just in shock. As I was coming awake, all I could see was fire and pieces of metal flying everywhere. I am very freaked out about this dream. What could it signify or mean? Please help me! Thank you..I won't be able to sleep until I know.

2007-02-06 18:14:42 · 10 answers · asked by MarilynMonroe 1

first of all I cant afford to have a theraphy from a Psycologist... My ADHD and learning disorder is a big hindranc ein my studies and it also gave me lots of writer's block. Can I fix my life without the help of a therapist because I dont have the money for them.

2007-02-06 18:07:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't know what it's called, but I'm gonna call them flashbacks hehe.
it's like a picture comes to my mind, a picture of the past, sometimes sad sometimes happy, sometimes just a picture of a street or like a picture of me and my friends when I was in 7th grade or something. I know it's normal to have this, but for the past few months I've been having it a lot, like 7 or 10 times a day. Why am I having this? what causes it?.
by the way, I was taking anti-depressants and anti-anxiety prescribed by the doc, I stopped taking them now, but I thought it might be the reason why I'm having this kind of "flashbacks".

2007-02-06 17:58:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been reading, thinking and wondering about this for years. I have read some VERY technical tomes ... few of them talk about how transference REALLY IS SOLVED! I mean let's assume that the therapist and the client have an excellent relationship. Forget whatever tradition. We go to therapy and we begin to experience that person alterantely as a Helper, a Counsellor, a Parent, and it goes on and on and cycles through it. I have internalized so much fo their good role modelling and all of the mutual positive regrd. But transactionally speaking, what ultimately happens? After a while you don't care anymore? You realize that they are "just" the therapist? It's as if it is not cool to even ask "What is SUPPOSED to happen?"

2007-02-06 17:52:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My elder brother (26 yrs) have completed XII this year and is not interested in doing nething... we have our own family business, and I have asked him to help my parents in it but of no avail... He would only say YES... MY younger brother is also of the same kind not even completed his tenth... very weak at academics ... he is 23 yrs and have no plans for future... I don't understand how to deal with these guys... my parents are tired of telling them...
Both of them enjoy sleeping... gets up at 12 pm and sleeps at 2 or 3 am... Enjoys watching movies, playing guitar and listening to music n nothing besides this.... I think they still feels they r vry vry young to do anything..... Please help

2007-02-06 17:49:47 · 12 answers · asked by manisha r 1

Can anyone answer this?

2007-02-06 17:47:44 · 9 answers · asked by Walker B 2

2007-02-06 17:44:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I thought if I write these down somewhere, knowing that someone would read it, would help reduce the pressure of my feelings

I stopped going to therapy about 5 months ago.
I felt like it isn't doing any good other than making me feel lousier about myself and also since I didn't want to end up in a mental hospital I was afraid to tell my psychologist that I'm thinking about suicide.
So I canceled my weekly appointments and threw out my meds.
I fought off the thoughts by making myself busy all day long.
But its been about a week or two that I'm feeling down and can't function much.
and the rest I don't know
I have an exam tomorrow evening and can't concentrate
wish me luck

2007-02-06 17:41:14 · 9 answers · asked by Samantha 6

If someone had a child in the family murdered and it was never solved, if they spend hours a day recounting details (that the police might have missed), or remembering arriving at the scene, or analyzing every part of the confession that got thrown out on a technicality, etc.

Would it be more OCD or PTSD that the doctor or therapist would be treating?

2007-02-06 17:22:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous 2

2007-02-06 17:09:24 · 3 answers · asked by hobo 7

I have been having a problem lately. I am a very creative person and I am aware of everything. I constantly think about colors and signs that i see, I try to find meaning in everything. This has creeped into my love life too, any mention of a guy puts me on over-analyzing auto pilot. it makes me crazy. mostly because my feelings are not correct, my girlfriend is 1000% faithful and i know it! I just keep turning things over in my mind and make myself believe it. I don't know what to do.

2007-02-06 16:53:56 · 13 answers · asked by leviwhalen 1

I am a very confident teenager at home and around my mates. when i go to school i am one of the main popular kids! the thing which i am suffering from is that when i go to class and get asked to read out loud or get asked to speak in front of the class i get extremely nervous and mess talking. i get very shakey too.. please help

2007-02-06 16:41:40 · 7 answers · asked by boka 2

I have a master's degree and a steady job. Not a challenging job, but I like it well enough and it pays the bills. I have plenty of friends but no significant other or kids to tie me down. I'm well-traveled, have hobbies and am taking meds for depression. I work out and eat right.

The problem is every couple years I feel hella restless. I just want to up and travel or up and start a new job--change SOMETHING. While that was fine in my early 20's, I'm fast hitting 30 and still not sure what I want to be when I grow up (heh).

Is this normal? Am I ever going to be happy where I am or with what I'm doing--or even who I am? Why do I feel like life is in a rut and that I should make huge changes? Is the grass always greener?

Yes, a highly metaphysical problem, but I need to get some answers cuz this is driving me LOCO!!!

2007-02-06 16:38:55 · 11 answers · asked by rose_americaine 2

Im an introvert. I go somewhere and sit and try and listen to what people are saying but often can't keep up. When i have trouble understanding things i go by the emotion and react with body language or eye movmement. People became aware that i was reacting to these things that had nothing to do with me and start bringing up things under the guise of it already being a part of their life but in reality they are describing me and judging my feelings on what they say. They are putting ideas in my head, testing me, defining me

2007-02-06 16:36:35 · 2 answers · asked by Ben C 3